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here is my latest post, on my experience reading Hegel, and the impression of his prose, plus thoughts on Alexandre Koyré's essay "Hegel in Jena" listed.to/@pachabelcan...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

what is the general Hegelian response to Schelling's late "positive philosophy"?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I am a complete doomer about cooptation, ftr. I more or less just think you should say and advocate for what you think is true, and can defend on good grounds, and never bother trying to hedge against people coopting your ideas. Ideas can always be coopted, there is no defence against that.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

man this website is kind of terrifying. though maybe because my first exposure in a while is looking at the "bullying is good actually" discourse

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

What the hell, the President elected in 2008 in Stephen Baxter's 1997 novel Titan sounds just like Trump II—cutting off foreign aid, rumours of troops in Panama, raising tariffs, building the wall, hawkish over China and cutting science research

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

soon after things pick up with my bsky account i plan on posting some of my longform twitter threads here

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

i generally dislike "STEM needs humanities" arguments but this is actually a case where it legitimately applies, albeit for not the reason you imagine

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

the qts are so weird with the "yeah bullying and death threats are cool, get out if you can't handle it" like what. hard to imagine someone affirming this wholeheartedly

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

man ChatGPT o3 is an extremely weird little guy. why was it able to do this. it did not seem to access anything external in order to produce this weird map in response to just being fed the logs from my tabletop game

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

"there exists a rigorous mathematical description of the commonalities between every Seinfeld episode sufficient to reconstruct new episodes recognizable as instances of the genre" is an indisputable and bizarre fact at this point, even if the episodes reconstructed in this way are bad.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments